Cocaine Enhances HIV-1 Infectivity in Monocyte Derived Dendritic Cells by Suppressing microRNA-155

Jessica Napuri; Sudheesh Pilakka-Kanthikeel; Andrea Raymond; Marisela Agudelo; Adriana Yndart-Arias; Shailendra K. Saxena; Madhavan Nair

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083682

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Cocaine Enhances HIV-1 Infectivity in Monocyte Derived Dendritic Cells by Suppressing microRNA-155

Jessica Napuri,

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Sudheesh Pilakka-Kanthikeel,

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Center for Personalized Nanomedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Andrea Raymond,

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Marisela Agudelo,

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Adriana Yndart-Arias,

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Center for Personalized Nanomedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Shailendra K. Saxena,

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Madhavan Nair

* E-mail: nairm@fiu.edu

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Center for Personalized Nanomedicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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Cocaine Enhances HIV-1 Infectivity in Monocyte Derived Dendritic Cells by Suppressing microRNA-155

Jessica Napuri,
Sudheesh Pilakka-Kanthikeel,
Andrea Raymond,
Marisela Agudelo,
Adriana Yndart-Arias,
Shailendra K. Saxena,
Madhavan Nair

Published: December 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083682

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